On 12/4/06, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stefan Arentz wrote:
> I use the IDEA plugin to generate project files for my Maven projects.
> Works pretty good but there is one thing that bugs me.
>
> It seems that you first need to build and install the project before
> the IDEA plugin can create the project files. In other words, the
> plugin requires the artifacts to be available. Usually this is not a
> problem but I encounter many cases now where I need to work on a
> project that does not actually build yet.
>
> I think this mostly happens in multi-module projects. I always run
> with linkModules=true so IDEA really doesn't need to have links to the
> artifacts in ~/.m2/repository.
>
> Is this a known limitation of the IDEA plugin that can be fixed?
> Should I fix that?
It still usually work even if it's complaining a whole lot about missing
artifacts.
No it seems to stop processing the dependencies when it encounters a
module dependency that it cannot resolve. Since I list those first in
my pom I always end up with a project that misses all the external
deps.
S.
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